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mbarton@picosof.com wrote:
: I recommend two readings: Biodiversity, Editor E.O Wilson for
: understanding the reality of and urgency of wildlands protection.

: and

: Our Angry Earth, by Isaac Asimov and Frederick Pohl, for th elow-down on
: just about every environmental crisis and our choices.

I'd like to add another suggestion, but rather than just cite it, I'll 
provide the passage right here.

     One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves
     out.  Be as I am--a reluctant enthusiast . . . a part-
     time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic.  Save the other
     half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and
     adventure.  It is not enough to fight for the land; it
     is even more important to enjoy it.  While you can.
     While it is still here.  So get out there and hunt and 
     fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder
     and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the
     peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet
     and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contmeplate
     the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and
     awesome space.  Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in
     your head and your head firmly attached to the body,
     the body active and alive, and I promise you this much:
     I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies,
     over those desk-bound men with their hearts in a safe-
     deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk 
     calculators.  I promise you this: you will outlive
     those bastards.
                          -- Ed Abbey


So, just how much time have you been spending trampling across the great
deserts of Death Valley and Mojave?--in between the thrilling desk jockey
adventures you have recommended that others join you in reading, of
course. 

: There are endless other places already destroyed to take your ORV...

Name three of them that are legal and within 100 miles of your home.